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Re: THREDDS download (fwd)

Marcus,

> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:22:11 -0500
> From: Marcus A Christie <address@hidden>
> To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: THREDDS download

The above message contained the following:

> I've installed LDM (still waiting to hear back re: a data feed), Tomcat,
>   netCDF, and udunits.  Those all went ok.  However, netcdf-perl didn't
> pass all of it's tests.  I am running this on a RH8.0 server, and from
> the mailing list it looks like others have been having the same problem:
> 
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> lead.extreme.indiana.edu% make test
> make[1]: Entering directory `/.automount/rainier/root/home/user1/ldm/np'
> 
> making `test' in directory /u/ldm/np/perl
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/.automount/rainier/root/home/user1/ldm/np/perl'
> cp NetCDF.pm blib/lib/NetCDF.pm
> AutoSplitting blib/lib/NetCDF.pm (blib/lib/auto/NetCDF)
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
> Creating netCDF file...........................ok
> Setting fill mode..............................ok
> Defining fixed dimensions......................ok
> Defining fixed variables.......................ok
> Writing global attribute.......................ok
> Writing variable attributes....................ok
> Defining record dimension......................ok
> Defining record variables......................ok
> Ending definition..............................ok
> Writing fixed variable values..................ok
> Synchronizing netCDF I/O.......................ok
> Writing record values..........................ok
> Closing netCDF file............................ok
> Opening netCDF file for reading................ok
> Inquiring about netCDF file....................ok
Checking global attribute name.................ok
> Checking global attribute value................ok
> Getting second dimension ID....................ok
> Checking second dimension information..........ok
> Checking fixed variable ID.....................ok
> Checking fixed variable information............ok
> Checking last value of first record variable...make[2]: ***
> [test_dynamic] Segmentation fault
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/.automount/rainier/root/home/user1/ldm/np/perl'
> make[1]: *** [perl/test] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/.automount/rainier/root/home/user1/ldm/np'
> make: *** [test] Error 2
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I've seen this problem before but have been unable to determine the
cause.  It only seems to occur on Linux 2.4.18 systems (such as RedHat
8) with version 3.2 of the Gnu gcc compler and version 5.8 of perl.  I
suggest using a different version of perl as a workaround.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson